Chesapeake Bay Bridge

The manager of Havre de Grace-based WHGM/104.7 FM radio wants to reach all of Harford County with a more powerful FM signal, but a osprey couple has temporarily derailed those plans. The birds have taken up residence on a communications tower near the Havre de Grace Community Center, where the station plans to locate its new FM antenna, WHGM president and general manager Jeff Davis said. As a result, the station cannot move forward with installing the antenna until the federally-protected birds hatch their chicks and move on. Davis took over the AM station, WHGM 1330, in October 2014. The oldest radio station in Harford County, it originally aired with the AM call letters WASA in 1948....

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